Knots
To see knots in your dream, signifies much worry over trifling affairs. You may be trying to find a resolution to a situation.
It also denotes constraints and restrictions in your thoughts, feelings and actions.
To dream that you are tying a knot, symbolizes your independent and unyielding nature. You have everything under control. It may also mean a union of two people or a commitment to a relationship as indicated by the coming phrase "tying the knot".
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest"
- 2: any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- 3: a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
- 4: something twisted and tight and swollen; "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots" [syn: knot, gnarl]
- 5: a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude [syn: nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile]
- 6: soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design [syn: slub, knot, burl]
- 7: a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere [syn: knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus]
- v. 1: make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted her fingers"
- 2: tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
- 3: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: ravel, tangle, knot] [ant: ravel, ravel out, unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle]